This paper describes a pilot study aimed at evaluating a new instrument, the patient assessment questionnaire (PAQ), which uses patient ratings for the assessment of communication skills and ...

Despite the drive toward value-based health care reimbursement and patients’ ever increasing financial stake in their own health care treatment, many traditional value assessment tools fail to ...

Physicians are required by law and medical ethics to obtain the informed consent of their patients before initiating treatment. 1 Valid informed consent is premised on the disclosure of ...

Before several nurses brought concerns about patient assessment forms to officials with Nova Scotia Health, they were altering them to be more reflective of the patients they were seeing.

(HealthDay)—A new patient assessment tool can guide clinicians to help ensure consistency in the quality of patient assessment and consultation in those seeking minimally invasive facial ...

2. Patients new to physical therapy and those seeking ongoing therapy will need to receive prior authorizations. 3. The initial patient evaluation does not require a prior authorization, but to ...

Almost half (46%) of the 676 patients reported never or rarely having been asked for their self-assessment of their disease activity. Many patients discussed feeling that their symptoms were not ...

Image | Patient assessment form Caption: Before several nurses brought concerns about patient assessment forms to officials with Nova Scotia Health, they were altering them to be more reflective ...